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The Tolga Bat Hospital: where adorable abandoned baby bats are wrapped in blankets and fed with bottles.

Normally
we associate bats with being blood-thirsty, but all these cute critters
want to drink is some bottled milk. About 300 bat pups are orphaned
every year because their mother is ill and can’t feed them or has died
from tick paralysis. These furry creatures are too injured to return to
the wild and need to be nursed back to health. Pictured at the hospital,
the black flying animals can be seen sucking on bottles, while they are
swaddled in colourful blankets. The bats can also be seen bathing in
the bathroom sink and even having their hair combed by workers at the
hospital. The Tolga Bat Hospital
in Atherton, Australia, is a community group working for the
conservation of bats and their natural habitat. The volunteers care for
bats who have come from hundreds of kilometres away in need for urgent
care. And they also take in bats for sanctuary after they have been
retired from zoos.